Sterility definitions

STERILITY, n. [L.] 1. Barrenness; unproductiveness; unfruitfulness; the quality or state of producing little or nothing; as the sterility of land or soil. 2. Barrenness; unfruitfulness; the state of not producing young; as of animals. 3. Barrenness of ideas or sentiments, as in writings. 4. Want of fertility or the power of producing sentiment; as the sterility of an author or of his mind.

Sterility Ste*ril"i*ty, n. [L. sterilitas: cf. F. st['e]rilit['e].] 1. The quality or condition of being sterile. 2. (Biol.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.